Campbellville, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Empire census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35063. It stands on Clark Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sipsey quadrangle.

Campbellville within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Sipsey quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Sipsey quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Sipsey quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

264 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Campbellville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,917 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 112 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	112
Debris and open burning	89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coon Creek	1.5 miles	21
Black Warrior Town (historical)	1.7 miles	21
Sipsey	1.8 miles	21
Dilworth	2.4 miles	21
Empire	3.1 miles	21
Creel	3.6 miles	23
Debardeleben	3.8 miles	21
Argo	4.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115506. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.